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World Science Day 2020: What this scientifically significant year tells us about climate challenges
Maxime Rischard, Lead Scientist, Cervest Today marks UNESCO’s World Science Day for Peace and Development. Celebrated annually on November 10th, it highlights the importance of science in society, and encourages wider public debates on key scientific issues. Perhaps...
Reflections from Amanda Sun on her Motion Design Internship
“If you want to animate, I recommend acting classes." said my supervisor Ernesta, as we worked on empty states for the Cervest platform. Thanks to COVID-19, I did not have a chance to fully execute that insight in my two and a half months at Cervest. But I look back...
Conversation creates change: Recent conferences, panels and discussions on climate risk
Across sectors, and amongst the policy, academic and business community, understanding climate risk is a growing priority. Climate risk is increasingly gathering attention as part of rising broader awareness of the impact of climate change and the need to tackle it....
Cervest bolsters international team, hiring Laura Zamboni, PhD, expert in climate science
In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated and emphasised the need for organisations worldwide to collaborate and take action on critical issues. The past few months have served as a wake-up call to people, governments and businesses to strengthen their supply...
Why mandatory disclosure should become the norm
The New Zealand Government’s recent announcement, requiring all banks, asset managers and insurance companies with more than NZ$1 billion in assets to disclose their climate risks—in line with the emerging global standard from the Financial Stability Board’s Task...
Cervest graduates from Google’s Startup Accelerator on the Sustainable Development Goals
In April 2020, Cervest was selected from 1,200 applicants to be just one of two UK companies joining Google’s inaugural Startup Accelerator on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As the wider world turned its attention to the ongoing battle against the climate...
The four things you need to know about climate-related financial disclosure
Climate-related financial disclosure is a hot topic at the moment. Since the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was formed in 2015, a growing number of businesses, investors and solution providers have been working to better understand, and...
Cervest recognised in London Tech 50 innovation ranking
Last week Cervest was recognised as one of the capital’s most exciting technology companies. In Business Cloud’s 2020 London Tech 50 innovation ranking, we were listed—as well as the climate crisis recognised—alongside well respected organisations such as HoloMe,...
Climate security report: assessing business risk
Foreword Today, extreme climate events are becoming a daily reality for everyone. Stark warnings from 11,000 scientists across 153 nations state that “urgent” change is required to offset the threat to natural ecosystems and humanity. The threat that a volatile...
Understanding Climate Security Through Assets
“Climate security” has been discussed for several years, yet understanding of the term is not widespread and lacks a clear definition. Moreover, often it is used in a limited way, failing to encapsulate the broad sense in which climate change threatens security. ...
Remote Sensing Of Planet Earth – Part 3: Modis vs Sentinel-2
In the last blog post we looked into Sentinel-2 from the European Space Agency. In this one we introduce another optical imagery sensor, called Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). MODIS has some distinctively different properties from Sentinel-2:...
Decoding Climate Uncertainty
This talk was originally given by Mark Hodgson, Chief Business Officer at Cervest, for Agri-Tech-E’s webinar “Keeping a Sunny Outlook - De-risking Agriculture Through Weather-Tech” on 29th April 2020. Summary: An increasingly uncertain climate is impacting entire food...